OK,noted,I'll leave the swappiness=60 on.
I have a question for Shinobar,hoped he sees this. Running winfonts in Classic Pup 214X-TOP failed to use WinXP pagefile as swap space. Free in MRrxvt didn't show any swap available.

Hi jpeps, thanks so much for your swapfilemanager pet. I've used it successfully. I've also tried winfonts pet to set swap space which in my case makes use of the pagefile.sys in my WinXP partition. Your swapfilemanager has this swappiness feature which winfonts doesn't(though I believe it can be done manually by adding a script somewhere). However,I'm not sure if my comparison is valid,after creating a swapfile with your pet,the bootup time for Puppy is about 1.5 to 2 minutes,whereas for winfonts it's faster,under 1 minute. Just my observation.
For those who do not wish to create a new partition in Windoze,either of these methods is useful,esp for those with less than 512MB RAM;in fact,even with 512 MB RAM,if you run modern browsers and play youtube videos online,it's barely enough,so having a swap file ,preferably equal in size to your RAM capacity,will markedly improve performance.Last edited by PenguinPupLin on Mon 09 Jan 2012, 04:17; edited 1 time in total

However,I'm not sure if my comparison is valid,after creating a swapfile with your pet,the bootup time for Puppy is about 1.5 to 2 minutes,whereas for winfonts is faster,under 1 minute. Just my observation.

I tried with Slacko. I turned swap off and rebooted in 44 seconds. I turned it on and rebooted in 42 seconds.

However,I'm not sure if my comparison is valid,after creating a swapfile with your pet,the bootup time for Puppy is about 1.5 to 2 minutes,whereas for winfonts is faster,under 1 minute. Just my observation.

I tried with Slacko. I turned swap off and rebooted in 44 seconds. I turned it on and rebooted in 42 seconds.

Sorry,it could be due to something else then.
Another interesting observation I've made is that after creating pupswap.swp for use in Pup214X-TOP9 but couldn't get it to work - error:swapon - invalid argument - I then rebooted into another puppy(wary511 as well as 431),and the pupswap.swp was automatically recognised on bootup without me having done any swapon setting other than the previous winfonts-set-pagefile procedure;it actually combined the two,i.e pupswap(512MB) + pagefile(768MB) = 1.3 GB as swap ! For now,I've deleted pupswap.swp to save harddisk space until Shinobar or someone else could point me to a solution for Pup214X-TOP9 to use swap file.

Hi jpeps,I tried swapfilemanager in Classic Pup 214X-TOP9 to create a swap file but it didn't work. First time I used the name pupswap.swp, swapon said invalid argument. Second time, used the default name swapfile,nothing happened. Free in console no swap available.
This very useful pet works well in my other puppies.eg Wary 511, Lighthouse ,puppy 431, but I haven't tried it in Legacy OS2, am quite sure it will run into the same problem as for Classic Pup as both are based on older kernels,k2.6.18.1 (puppy 2.14).
Hoped you'd look into it and come out with a solution as without swap space,Classic Pup 214X on my notebook runs slow and jerky. Thanks in advance.
Just curious: is your swap file in Linux (ext2/3/4?) partition or ntfs like in my case?

Hi jpeps,I tried swapfilemanager in Classic Pup 214X-TOP9 to create a swap file but it didn't work. First time I used the name pupswap.swp, swapon said invalid argument. Second time, used the default name swapfile,nothing happened. Free in console no swap available.
This very useful pet works well in my other puppies.eg Wary 511, Lighthouse ,puppy 431, but I haven't tried it in Legacy OS2, am quite sure it will run into the same problem as for Classic Pup as both are based on older kernels,k2.6.18.1 (puppy 2.14).
Hoped you'd look into it and come out with a solution as without swap space,Classic Pup 214X on my notebook runs slow and jerky. Thanks in advance.
Just curious: is your swap file in Linux (ext2/3/4?) partition or ntfs like in my case?

Looks like you're cross-posting the same issue in multiple threads. It was already addressed here:

Thanks, jpeps, for this utility, being a newbie to Linux, I've struggled with creating a swapfile/partition. This has saved my hair and fingernails, great work. I've yet to test it out fully but at least my system didn't crash or freeze.

It installed without a hitch in Slacko 5 and 5.3.3 on a system with only 112 Mb of available ram, hopefully it will help with the more resource-intense apps.

It installed without a hitch in Slacko 5 and 5.3.3 on a system with only 112 Mb of available ram, hopefully it will help with the more resource-intense apps.

wow...I thought Slacko required more ram...did you try Wary? Even with a gig of ram, my swap file kicks in during intense tasks like converting particularly dense files. I'm guessing that without out it, my computer would have frozen.

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